The Phnom Penh Post
Bowing to pressure, Chamroeun quits party
Former CPP lawmaker Chea Chamroeun took to Facebook on Friday to declare his resignation from the Cambodian Liberty Party, less than four months after he announced its formation. ...
Khy Sovuthy
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/bowing-to-pressure-chamroeun-quits-party-110111/
Organics finding a following
As Phnom Penh sees a sprouting of organic grocery stores across the city, the newest entrant in the market says it will go a step further and sell chemical-free pesticides to farmers to encourage the growing trend of organic products and farming techniques. ...
Ayanna Runcie
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/organics-finding-following
It’s back to school for real estate agents
The Cambodian Valuers and Estate Agents Association (CVEA) will set out a framework to build a professional training school by April to enable its agents to compete with those from other countries. ...
Sum Manet
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/22926/it---s-back-to-school-for-real-estate-agents/
More power outages in store for pp locales
Parts of Phnom Penh experienced scheduled power outages yesterday, as a result of state power company Electricite du Cambodge moving power poles to make way for road widening, the EDC said yesterday. ...
Bun Sengkong
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/more-power-outages-store-pp-locales
Foreign minister urges North Korean restraint in peninsula
Cambodian Foreign Minister Hor Namhong urged North Korea to have bilateral meetings with the South to help resolve tensions on the Korean Peninsula in a meeting with North Korean Ambassador Hong Ki Choi at the Cambodian Foreign Ministry yesterday. ...
Ban Sokrith
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/22937/foreign-minister-urges-north-korean-restraint-in-peninsula/
Taskforce to weigh measures for rice sector’s future
The Commerce Ministry has created a special taskforce to study challenges threatening the sustainability of the nation’s rice industry and will report its findings within two weeks, a ministry official said yesterday. ...
Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/taskforce-weigh-measures-rice-sectors-future
Immigration plans crackdown on foreign citizenship documents
The Immigration Department warned Interior Ministry officials on Wednesday not to issue Cambodian citizenship documents, such as birth certificates and ID cards, to foreigners living in the Kingdom. ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/22940/immigration-plans-crackdown-on-foreign-citizenship-documents/
Amid water shortages, China to up Mekong flow
China’s decision to discharge water from the Jinghong hydropower station in Yunnan province, allowing it to flow down the Mekong River to help alleviate water shortages downstream, was praised by the Foreign Ministry yesterday. ...
Sen David and Igor Kossov
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/amid-water-shortages-china-mekong-flow
As rail plan delayed, homeless take shelter in Battambang station warehouse
Many Battambang residents see the squatter camp at the train depot’s abandoned warehouse as a den of criminals and drug addicts. Fourty-four-year-old Srey Oun sees it as her home. “Many of the people who live here are unemployed,” she said, “but I am always scavenging ...
Ven Rathavong and Jonathan Cox
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/22935/as-rail-plan-delayed--homeless-take-shelter-in-battambang-station-warehouse/
New program to fight gender-based violence
Physical, sexual and emotional violence against women is “common” in Ratanakkiri’s ethnic minority communities, and mostly committed by the victims’ husbands, a new gender-based violence report by CARE Cambodia has found. ...
Yesenia Amaro
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/new-program-fight-gender-based-violence
Ministry adjusting timelines on licences
The Ministry of Public Works and Transport will allow motorists holding what were formerly permanent driver’s licences to extend them for 10 more years. ...
Lay Samean
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ministry-adjusting-timelines-licences
On dengue, act locally, urges new report
Efforts to catch and fight dengue outbreaks in Cambodia are more likely to be effective if they are conducted at the provincial level, according to a study published last week in online science journal BioMed Central. ...
Igor Kossov
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/dengue-act-locally-urges-new-report
Rubber firms report deep losses
Cambodia’s rubber industry’s woes have begun to crystallise after two major rubber plantations announced deep losses yesterday, attributing their downturn to high production costs and a drop in global rubber prices. ...
Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/rubber-firms-report-deep-losses
Cargo giants call on Sihanoukville port
As Cambodia’s sole deep-sea port in Sihanoukville looks to increase its presence on global shipping routes, the decision by two major Chinese shipping companies six months ago to call at the port has seen mixed results, with one firm already dropping out due to low ...
Sor Chandara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/cargo-giants-call-sihanoukville-port
Food project targets women
USAID is spending $1 million on a project the aim of which will improve nutrition across four provinces by training women in farming practices that have higher yields, produce more nutrient-rich vegetables and require less resources. ...
Yesenia Amaro
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/food-project-targets-women
PM scraps ministry’s passport control plan
Prime Minister Hun Sen issued a directive on Monday instructing officials returning from work overseas to hold on to their mission passports, directly contravening two recent Foreign Ministry announcements calling on officials to hand the passports over upon return in a bid to prevent their ...
Lay Samean
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/pm-scraps-ministrys-passport-control-plan
CNRP ‘focused, quiet’
With members still languishing in jail and under fresh attack via a now two-week-old infidelity scandal, the Cambodia National Rescue Party emerged from a two-day meeting in Manila yesterday to announce it will not be hitting back, instead opting to focus on the upcoming elections. ...
Meas Sokchea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cnrp-focused-quiet
Tractors prove steady sellers
Tractor sales continued to grow last year, driven by a shortage of labour in the agricultural sector and farmer cooperatives increasingly pooling their resources to buy farm equipment to serve their members. ...
Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/tractors-prove-steady-sellers
Geopacific shines on latest test drill results
Australian mining firm Geopacific Resources Ltd has made a new discovery of high-grade gold and silver mineralisation during exploratory drilling at a remote site in northern Cambodia, the company said in an announcement yesterday. ...
Cam McGrath
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/geopacific-shines-latest-test-drill-results
Army on artillery recruiting drive
At least 700 applicants have signed up to join the Royal Cambodian Armed Forces (RCAF), with the successful recruits to be trained to operate new Chinese-built artillery, a senior military source said yesterday. ...
Vong Sokheng and Shaun Turton
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/army-artillery-recruiting-drive
Korea envoy claims gov’t probe a ‘setup’
Cambodia’s controversial ambassador to South Korea, Suth Dina, has released a public plea to Prime Minister Hun Sen to safeguard his job, amid what appears to be an investigation by the Foreign Affairs Ministry into his office, it emerged yesterday. ...
Mech Dara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/korea-envoy-claims-govt-probe-setup
Cambodian slots help offset EGA’s losses
European Gaming machine supplier and casino operator Entertainment Gaming Asia Inc reported consolidated revenues of $7.3 million in 4Q15, a decrease of 12 per cent compared to the same period a year earlier. ...
Post Staff
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/cambodian-slots-help-offset-egas-losses
Kingdom's sugar exports to EU plummet
New figures show that Cambodia’s sugar exports to the European Union fell by 94.8 per cent between 2013 and 2015, amid accusations of rights abuses and land grabbing in the Kingdom’s industry. ...
Will Jackson
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/kingdoms-sugar-exports-eu-plummet
Fuel prices to fall as price caps revealed
The government announced a set of price caps on retail petroleum products yesterday based on the application of its new fuel-pricing mechanism. Sor Chandara ...
Sor Chandara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/fuel-prices-fall-price-caps-revealed